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Article #3232Re: GaAs considered a dead end
From: Michael Hui
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1989 20:32
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1989 20:32
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GaAs cannot be a dead end. It is used quite a bit in microwave circuits, and now you can get industry standard pin-out and function PALs from Gazelle in GaAs. In telecom, especially in TDM digital fiber transmission products, the serial<->parallel converters usually are done using GaAs chips. There are alternatives, of course, but currently those alternatives (in silicon) are _less_ mature than GaAs.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!uwm.edu!rpi!batcomputer!cornell!uw-beaver!ubc-cs!eric!joplin!hui From: hui@joplin.mpr.ca (Michael Hui) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: GaAs considered a dead end Message-ID: <1933@eric.mpr.ca> Date: 30 Nov 89 20:32:30 GMT References: <24317@cup.portal.com> <480@dmk3b1.UUCP> <1989Nov28.104128.8045@hellgate.utah.edu> <1Tcfjq#9jMTbv=eric@snark.uu.net> <3511@convex.UUCP> Sender: news@eric.mpr.ca Reply-To: hui@mprgate.mpr.ca Organization: Microtel Pacific Research Ltd., Burnaby, B.C., Canada Lines: 7